Shining Tor from Tegg's Nose Country Park Viewpoint.
Tegg's Nose Country Park Viewpoint information board.
Macclesfield Forest from Saddlers Way.
The end of easy part of Saddlers Way.
Sutton Common Mast from Hacked Way.
Tegg's Nose and Sutton Common from Hacked Way.
Passing the old barn in Macclesfield Forest.
A delightful path through the trees on the way to Charity Lane.
Chapel in the Forest - St. Stephen's, Macclesfield Forest.
Inside St. Stephen's, Macclesfield Forest.
Distant views of the Cat and Fiddle on the Buxton Road.
The steep descent from Chapel House Farm on the way to Greenways Farm.
Greenways Farm ahead.
Lamaload Reservoir from the road.
Lamaload Reservoir through the "trees".
The dam on Lamaload Reservoir.
Hazy distant views of White Nancy and Manchester's high-rise tower blocks.
At last it's a gate and not a stile!
Tegg's Nose and Sutton Common from the Gritstone Trail.
Snowdrops on the grass verge at the entrance to Tegg's Nose Country Park.
Distance: 7.5 miles. Climb: 1883’Time: 5 hours 23 minutes.
On the move walking average: 2.1 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.4 m.p.h.
Temperature: 8 Celsius at the start. Max 13.2 Celsius at lunch in the warm sunshine.
Beaufort Wind Force: 0 – 4. In the main, quite Calm, although at the highest point on the walk, it did gust to a 13.2 m.p.h. Moderate breeze.
Group: Martyn. Mike and Fran
The weather was rather forecast today was looking good, dry and lots of bright sunshine, although 20 m.p.h. winds were likely. Thankfully they didn’t.
This was a superb day for a walk and today the conditions underfoot were pretty good, even those places that have been boggy on previous visits.
This walk is very varied and involved a fair number of ups and downs, with Mike racing ahead on several of the ups. Lots of challenging stiles to climb, one of which in future I will avoid by taking a slight detour along the road.
After visiting St. Stephen’s Church, Macclesfield Forest, we decided to have an early lunch sitting on the grassy bank, sheltered from any wind by the walls on either side of the bridle way, but still able to bask in the warm sunshine, serenaded by sing Skylarks.
Lots of trees had been felled since our last visit, allowing us views that we hadn’t seen before. In particular we had views of Lamaoad Reservoir, that had always been hidden by the trees.
At first distant views were clear, but later on it became somewhat hazy, particularly towards White Nancy and the high-rise tower block of Manchester.
Birds seen or heard today: House sparrow, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Jackdaw, Common blackbird, Carrion crow, Raven, Meadow pipit, Skylark, Lapwing, Eurasian curlew, Woodpigeon, Common chaffinch, Canada goose, Blue tit, European robin, Black billed magpie and Great tit.
Overall, a very enjoyable walk.
We started on the homeward journey at about 15-35, so there wasn’t really time for me to stop for a cup of tea, so the taxi was ordered to go directly to the Wealstone in Upton, where two of the group were able to enjoy one or two pints or more, having first dropped their walking gear at home. Nigel was able to join them as well.
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